They can strip a carcass clean in minutes. Blood drips from a Rüppell’s vulture’s beak as it pauses mid-meal. The neck and head of Rüppell’s are sparsely feathered, the better to keep gore ...

The Bearded Vulture is a unique bird that specialises in eating bone marrow by breaking bones and swallowing them whole ...

it signals other vultures by wheeling in the sky. It can only eat animals that have soft tissue, as its beak is unable to rip through tough skin. Upon finding food, the white-backed vulture ...

A sympathetic butcher gave him three cow heads. 'I knew that king vultures can smell fresh meat from several kilometres away, but it was a great surprise to me when they turned up almost straight away ...

Vultures are obligate scavengers and rely on predators to hunt and to break through the tough hide of carcasses that their beaks cannot penetrate in order to feed, so the presence of vultures on ...